I'm glad that someone in High School knows about ST. Look out for my biography, Sophie Tucker and the Legend of a Red Hot Mama in the future. She sang about her weight for sure, and was incredibly self-effacing, but it occurred in a very different context than the one that you describe with Minaj, Dunham, etc. It took her years to develop this kind of personae and initially she had to perform in disguise (blackface) because she was called ugly. Lauren Sklaroff, Department of History, University of South Carolina
I'm glad that someone in High School knows about ST. Look out for my biography, Sophie Tucker and the Legend of a Red Hot Mama in the future. She sang about her weight for sure, and was incredibly self-effacing, but it occurred in a very different context than the one that you describe with Minaj, Dunham, etc. It took her years to develop this kind of personae and initially she had to perform in disguise (blackface) because she was called ugly. Lauren Sklaroff, Department of History, University of South Carolina